Barbara Mainguy
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Barbara Mainguy, MSW, a behavioral health clinician and psychotherapist who works with tribes in Maine, serves as a psychotherapist at Cornerstone Behavioral Health in that state and as Director of Education for the Coyote Institute in Orono. She has taught hypnosis for the American Psychiatric Association and the New England Society for Clinical Hypnosis, and some of her areas of specialization include: using psychotherapy with patients diagnosed as psychotic; working with people in chronic pain; and exploring the interface between art, psychotherapy and healing. She is the co-author of Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine trained in family medicine, psychiatry and clinical psychology, has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently at the University of New England. He is a descendant of the Cherokee-Lakota Sioux people, and was raised by his grandmother, a Cherokee woman. His father’s people were a combination of French Canadian and Oglala Lakota from the Wounded Knee area of South Dakota. He has long worked in aboriginal communities and developed uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and healthcare. He is the author of a trilogy: Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing and Coyote Wisdom; as well as: Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and most recently, with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.
Laura Alden Kamm
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Sandor Ellix Katz
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Sandor Ellix Katz, a fermentation revivalist Michael Pollan calls the “Johnny Appleseed of Fermentation,”is the author of the classics in the field: Wild Fermentationand The Art of Fermentation, and has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops around the world that have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, The New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” Sandor is the recipient of a James Beard award and other honors.
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Alan Steinfeld
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Alan Steinfeld is a writer, producer and speaker in the fields of human potential, metaphysics, conscious evolution, healing, creativity, spiritual awakening and cosmic intelligences. He is also the host and director of the prime-time television program, New Realities, for Time Warner cable in New York City. For over 20 years he has brought cutting-edge ideas in science, health and spiritually to his audiences. He has interviewed over 3,000 of the most influential people in the world. Twelve million people have seen his New Realities videos on his YouTube channel. His New Realities radio shows and podcasts can be heard on iTunes, BBSradio and KYAK-FM in Oregon. He is Vice President of The Association of Psychotherapy and Spirituality; and the representative to the United Nations for The Academy for Future Science. He is the producer on two feature documentaries on the subject: The Hidden Hand directed by James Carmen and Calling All Earthlings by Jonathan Berman.
Ellen Goldberg
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Marianne Williamson
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Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist and spiritual thought leader. For over three decades Marianne has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the author of 14 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 13 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. They have since expanded their service to any person battling critical illness. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. She has advocated for reparations for slavery since the 1990’s and was the first candidate in the 2020 presidential primary season to make it a pillar of her campaign. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. In addition, she advocates for a cabinet level Department of Children and Youth to adequately address the chronic trauma of millions of American children. In 2020, Marianne began The Marianne Williamson Podcast. Subscribe wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
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Stephen Cope
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Stephen Cope, MSW, is the founder and former Director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living. Stephen is a best-selling author, well known for making the sometimes esoteric scriptures of yoga accessible to the mainstream reader. He has more than a quarter-million books in print, translated into 14 languages, and has received international acclaim for his work. His books include Yoga and the Quest for the True Self; The Wisdom of Yoga; The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling; and his latest, Soul Friends: The Transforming Power of Deep Human Connection.
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